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Consultants present gateway-signage options; commission leans toward stone-look column with city seal and modular inserts
Summary
Consultants briefed Brentwood commissioners on gateway-sign designs, highlighting TDOT clear-zone constraints, breakaway supports, faux-stone materials and maintenance trade-offs; commissioners favored a stone-look column with the city seal and modular, replaceable inserts.
Consultants from STV and an on-call designer presented draft gateway-sign concepts to the Brentwood commission on May 20, emphasizing safety and maintainability amid state right-of-way constraints. The consultants reviewed several design families (labeled in the presentation as options a–e) and explained how Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) clear-zone rules and breakaway-support requirements shape which materials and mounting details are allowable in specific locations.
Staff and the consultant explained that signs located within state-controlled right-of-way (for example, on Wilson Pike and Franklin Road) must meet clear-zone and breakaway requirements; where curb-and-gutter is absent, the consultant said the typical clear zone is 35 feet and immovable stone columns within that zone are not allowable unless mounted on…
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